On Monday 10 March, the second national conference on “confiscated and integrated urban security policies” will be held in the Green Room of the Regional Citadel in Catanzaro in Catanzaro, promoted by the Calabria Region, with the Digital Transition Department and Strategic Activities – Confiscated Heritage Sector – and the Department of the branch led by the Vice -President Filippo Pietropaoloand from the Italian Forum for Urban Security.
The activity of enhancing the confiscated assets, undertaken by the Calabria Region already with the approval of the regional strategy, is enriched with a new tool: the sector plan for the implementation of actions 4.3.2 and 4.h2 of the Calabria FESR FSE regional program+ 2021/2027 and the FSC 21/27 cohesion agreement, through which it was possible to select the operations on which resources converge
These are iImportant nves that have guided the administrative action in identifying also a path that allowed us to quickly reach the reuse of confiscated properties.
After the institutional greetings of the President of the Calabria RegionRoberto Occhiutoof the vice -president, Filippo Pietropaoloof the Prefect of Catanzaro, Castrese De Rosa, of the director of the National Agency for the Administration and the destination of the seized and confiscated assets to organized crime, Maria Rosaria Laganà, of the vice -president Italian forum for urban security, Marco Porceddaof the President of the Public Notice, Roberto Montà, It will come into the heart of the event, which stands in continuity with that made in 2023.
The conclusions will be entrusted to the Undersecretary of State of the Ministry of the Interior, Wanda Ferro.
The event on Monday, to which, among others, the General Manager of the Digital Transition Department and Strategic Activities of the Calabria Region will also intervene, Tommaso Calabròand the coordinator of confiscated assets enhancement activities, Antonella Settewas divided into three distinct forums.
In the first part, the transversal aspects will be analyzed and deepened to the entire public intervention supply chain and the specific problems concerning real estate and agricultural land, still comparing the experiences developed in the Calabria, Campania and Lazio regions to promote and support transparent and participatory paths of enhancement of confiscated assets.
If the confiscated assets represent the most evident aspect of the illegal conduct put in place by organized crime, there is another aspect that is intimately connected to the pervasive presence of crime in general and for which the efforts must be deployed more.
And in fact, The second part of the day will be dedicated to the emerging phenomenon of youth deviance, focusing attention on the preventive sphere of local authorities and local joints of the public administration, giving space to the voices of those who work daily with young people in the services present in the area.
A specific focus will concern the memorandum of understanding “Interventions for the strengthening of legality, security, social cohesion and for the fight against school abandonment in Calabria” signed on September 23, 2024, between the Calabria Region, the regional school office and the Ministry of the Interior, through which we intend to strengthen the aspect of the youth protagonism for the prevention of crime. In this perspective, the presence of the regional school office, together with the institutional subjects who face the problems related to youth deviance and school leaving daily daily, will provide an authoritative contribution to the discussion to identify shared paths of legality and safety.